For me Finland is a extremely special and unique country. Our country is tiny but despite of that it has so much to offer. Rich nature, high-level school system, its citizens own way to do things and everything is well-organized. In my opinion, that is rare when you understand that there is only five million Finns in the world.

I love the things that perhaps no one else than Finns understand and value. One of the things is of course sauna. Finns can not live without their saunas. In saunas, Finns get relaxed and warmed up after a long and cold winter days, what we have a lot. The another thing, you can find from the kitchen. Finns have many different and little bit weird dishes and ingredients. Rye bread, salty liquorice, mämmi and the list goes on.

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This blog is your window to Finnishness. Here you will find blog posts written by students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) describing their personal experiences and notions of being a Finn or living in Finland. This blog is part of the course "Intercultural Experiences and Competences" and was started in spring 2016.

You can use the tag cloud to find posts with specific contents, and to find posts from a specific month, use the navigation at the bottom of the page titled “Blog Post Archive”. Feel free to leave comments as well! Enjoy!